From time to time we get requests from beginners or from users migrating from other tools who
want to start using Oxygen with DITA and they need to know a set of useful resources.
Resources for editing DITA with Oxygen:
We have a getting started section in our user’s manual: https://www.oxygenxml.com/doc/ug-editor/topics/eppo-first-dita-topic.html and a larger section on DITA authoring: https://www.oxygenxml.com/doc/ug-editor/topics/author-dita.html.
Resources for learning DITA:
If you want to start learning about DITA in general there is a web site called Learning
DITA.
DITA Introduction articles by Stefan Jung.
The free Oxygen Live Tutorials add-on contains various small
tutorials for learning DITA.
The DITA 1.3 standard specification can be found here: https://www.oxygenxml.com/dita/1.3/specs/#introduction/dita-release-overview.html.
There are also a number of good books like DITA For Practitioners and the DITA
Style Guide.
Resources for understanding and working with DITA XML by ACM.
List of resources for learning and experimenting with DITA content by
Yedda Wang
Resources for customizing the DITA output formats
Usually customizing the XHTML based outputs means creating your custom CSS selectors. If
you generate WebHelp output using Oxygen, we have a section explaining basic WebHelp customizations.
For PDF-based outputs we recommend, support and maintain our CSS-based PDF publishing which is free to use from Oxygen XML Editor. There are also a number of different choices to obtain PDF from DITA:
Possibilities to obtain PDF from DITA.
might be useful:Server Side Building and Publishing.
Courses for learning DITA with Oxygen XML Editor
- Comtech Services: https://comtechservices.com/training/. Comtech has three training classes that use Oxygen
exclusively: DITA Basics, Advanced Reuse Strategies, Publishing for DITA. - Ryffine: https://www.ryffine.com/.
- Udemy: https://www.udemy.com/course/technical-writing-how-to-write-using-dita-xml/.
- Basic principles and theory of DITA, 10 hour recorded training course by Tony
Self: https://firehead-training.net/course/dita-concepts. - Mekon: http://mekon.com/news/dita-authoring-oxygen-author/
- French course by Tireme: http://dita.tireme.fr/#definition/m2_session_adapter_dita.html
- “Writing DITA content” – course with a two day duration by FlowTime:
https://www.flowtime.be/en/writing-dita-xml-content-schrijven. - “Empowering Structured Authoring with oXygen XML” – Metapercept provides
advanced DITA-XML and oXygen XML training programs tailored for professionals seeking to
deepen their expertise in structured content authoring, semantic tagging, and
multichannel publishing. Their offerings include self-paced modules and instructor-led
sessions with real-world, enterprise-aligned use cases. Through the DITA Authoring with oXygen XML course on Metapercept Academy,
learners progress beyond the basics to master advanced concepts such as specialization,
content reuse strategies, key-based linking, conditional profiling, and integration with
custom DITA-OT publishing pipelines.
DITA Trivia
Community
The DITA
Users List is probably the first place where you can register and ask for help with
DITA-related issues. A bunch of other community support forums for the publishing engine are
also listed here: https://www.dita-ot.org/support.
There is also a DITA Awareness
Group on Linked In.
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